Re: @url automatic breaking in TeX

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I thought I'd mention that Oleg and I just released an updated
> texinfo.tex which automatically allows breaking inside @url/@uref
> arguments (after ./?# only -- and only the second of two slashes :).

I consider breaking after `.' and `/' not optimal.  In many
situations, it looks like the end of a sentence.  Being a regular
reader of the Sky&Teleskope magazine, I was first distracted when they
introduced URL breaks *before* the dot and the slash a few years ago,
but nowadays I think it's the best solution:

Compare this (good one)

  This should mostly
  obviate the need
  for the annoying
  @/'s that was the
  only previous
  method.  http://
  ftp.gnu.org/gnu
  /texinfo/texinfo
  .tex.  This should
  mostly obviate the
  need for the
  annoying @/'s that
  was the only
  previous method.

with this (not so good one IMHO):

  This should mostly
  obviate the need
  for the annoying
  @/'s that was the
  only previous
  method.  http://
  ftp.gnu.org/gnu/
  texinfo/texinfo.
  tex.  This should
  mostly obviate the
  need for the
  annoying @/'s that
  was the only
  previous method.

Additionally, if you break before such characters, it would be
possible to break at `-' also:

  http://
  this-is
  -an-interesting
  .address

I would like to have this configurable :-)


    Werner